“Love Is Blind” alums Lydia Velez Gonzalez and Milton Johnson have officially called it quits after three years of marriage.
The couple, who met on season 5 of the Netflix series, said they experienced a “tumultuous” relationship after their time on the hit show.
“It wasn’t one thing,” Gonzalez told AD Smith on Wednesday’s episode of the “What’s the Reality?” podcast. “It was a layer of situations and things that kept piling up. When I told him, ‘Hey, I’ll let you know when the divorce papers are ready,’ his response was, ‘I’m not going to sign the papers unless there’s an NDA.’”
Of her decision to share the news publicly, Gonzalez said she’d been “quiet for too long” and “needed to share” her experience. She went on to explain that the marital problems started six months after their on-air wedding.
“At the beginning, everything was beautiful,” she said. “Everything was perfect. It was a fairy tale, and he showed me the kind of love that I’ve never received before. He loved me for who I was.”
But trouble in paradise surfaced when Gonzalez realized Johnson was still in contact with an ex-girlfriend he refused to “cut off.” She said she found text messages in his phone where Johnson told his best friend the woman had “been all around this d— lately” and that he wanted to “f— her.”
“My heart went to the floor,” Gonzalez said of the texts. “I felt betrayed and disrespected.”
After confronting Johnson about the messages, Gonzalez claims he “flipped it” on her and accused her of “invading his privacy.” She said he often complained about her “nagging him” throughout their marriage, and that she eventually began to feel like she was “losing [her] spark.”
“It kept making me feel small,” she recalled.
The 33-year-old said she finally decided to speak publicly because she’d been “suffering in silence” and “too much” had been done to “keep quiet” any longer.
Gonzalez admitted that, in hindsight, “maybe the internet was right, that he wasn’t ready for marriage.”
“I don’t think he was ready to be a husband,” she said.
Johnson did not respond to a Daily News request for comment.
